The most dreaded thread of the year.... The Closing thread......

[Edd]

Forecast in northern New England blows after Tuesday but looks sweet Sat-Tue. I’m considering skiing Saturday, typically unthinkable for me. Haven’t done that in over a decade.

 

[chuckstah]

Black mountain NH is done end of day tomorrow, March 20.

 

[jimmywilson69]

An easier decision when those who are real motivated to keep using their pass in the Spring can still do 1 more weekend at Frost and 3 more at Hunter.

yep and I get it. I know the corporate haters will think its BS, but skiing in March in Southcentral PA just isn't a big winner. If they commit to stay open from Early to mid-December and stay open until the 3rd weekend in March every year I will not complain. I'd prefer they contract to 1 mountain down here for 1 more weekend, but I also see the reason to just end it.

If I wasn't on the DL I'd definitely be going to Frost next weekend.

 

[jaytrem]

Black mountain NH is done end of day tomorrow, March 20.

Hmmm, my backup plan for Washington is looking worse and worse by the day.

 

[drjeff]

The great and powerful Mount Southington in CT, just opened up ticket reservations through next Sunday, the 28th!

While it may not have the biggest vertical drop or toughest terrain of the resorts in CT, having been there for a highschool ski race this past Monday, they're still 100% open with some solid base depths, and I will say that since they made a major upgrade to their snowmaking system a couple of seasons ago, they certainly have plenty of firepower to make a bunch of snow quickly!

 

[kingslug]

Just got back from Park City..spring skiing and powder skiing all in the same week...Now we will see if spring ...springs up at Stowe..still cold up there.

 

[Ski2LiveLive2Ski]

Just got back from Park City..spring skiing and powder skiing all in the same week...Now we will see if spring ...springs up at Stowe..still cold up there.

Hoping for Stowe April 2-3 hitting closer places on way up and back April 1 and 4.

 

[dblskifanatic]

The warming trend coming up will probably have some negative impacts into next week!

 

[skimagic]

Victor Constant on the West Point Army base is closing Sunday. I missed it again this year.

 

[urungus]

Bousquet closing Sunday

 

[ctenidae]

Catamount's not selling past 3/31. On Friday a couple of staff implied they're about done. If it weren't getting into the 60's this week they probably have enough base to go a couple weeks more, but this will hurt.

Going up to Butternut today, we'll see how she looks.

 

[FBGM]

Save 4 Ikonic days for spring Bird. Snowpack is meh, but they should squeeze out into May I hope.

 

[spiderpig]

Hey, it's better than writing about covid closings in January.

Mohawk in CT plans to be open through April 3, I guess passing on Easter. Based on the sticky surfaces, seems like they blew snow in some high traffic areas Friday night.

 

[kingslug]

Hunter held up well today..all areas pretty well covered..so far..get it while its good.

 

[PAabe]

Poconos update:
Elk closed - possibly reopening Saturday
Montage closed midweek now but open fri/sat/sun normal hours, no closing date announced yet, aiming for at least Easter
Shawnee open through Sunday now except no night skiing
Camelback open until at least Easter possibly until 2nd week of April
Bear Creek closed except to season pass holders
Spring Mountain, Big Boulder, Big Bear closed
Blue and Jack Frost open until Sunday as previously noted here

Spring weather causing people to not want to ski probably as big of a problem as base at this point - spring really hitting hard now, and we got the time change, and people don't have days that they scheduled in advance when it still felt like winter at this point - demand must be low because Blue and Camelback demand pricing is the lowest it has been all season!

 

[andrec10]

An easier decision when those who are real motivated to keep using their pass in the Spring can still do 1 more weekend at Frost and 3 more at Hunter.

Hunter will never make it 3 more weekends. Maybe 2. It was melting before our eyes today and yesterday.

 

[cdskier]

Big Bear closed

Closing the 2nd or 3rd weekend in March was normal for them back when I was a kid. I'm tempted to say I remember one time they stayed open until the last weekend in March (but I feel like that year we also had a big late March storm that helped).

 

[tnt1234]

Belleayre was awesome saturday and sunday.

But boy, it's warm this week. Not sure they haven enough to make it past this weekend.

 

[Ski2LiveLive2Ski]

Bear Creek closed except to season pass holders

What an odd decision to close only to people who would bring them $

 

[Ski2LiveLive2Ski]

Hunter will never make it 3 more weekends. Maybe 2. It was melting before our eyes today and yesterday.

Coverage seemed good to me this weekend - though of of course it melts when above freezing